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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: romantic
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, respect
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: feel, feelings
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: bad, liar
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."

    - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: anna-karenina, love, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenin
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.”
    ― Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: classic
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: happiness, love
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, peace
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: ignorant, men, noble
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: happiness-fulfillment-desire
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Love those you hate you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: hate, inspirational, love
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: anna-karenina, beauty, charm, diversity, leo-tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everything intelligent is so boring.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: boring, intelligent
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He went down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, but he saw her, as one sees the sun, without looking.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: admiration, anna-karenina, avoiding, flattery, gaze, love, stare, sun, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: broken, broken-heart, heart, heartache, heartbreak, pills
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: death, life
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: anna-karenina, despair, leo-tolstoy, love, sadness
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64656 likes



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